It’s not a question of staging. It’s a question of coverage. Rauner’s money has induced favorable media coverage. In the last 20 years, I can’t remember any GOP candidate receiving coverage that cheerleads the candidate like Rauner has received.

It’s not a question of staging. It’s a question of coverage. Rauner’s money has induced favorable media coverage. In the last 20 years, I can’t remember any GOP candidate receiving coverage that cheerleads the candidate like Rauner has received.

Yes ask Senator/Congressman/Governor Jim Oberweis how that worked out for him.

Quinn had his rally after all. Got the faithful to a fever pitch. Least ways that’s what I heard, anyway. Rauner bought a cow, or a bull or something. A neuter, I mean neutral, day for him, I guess. He can steer his campaign to a photo finish what with all the support and funds he has at his disposal.

How many folks in the districts both of these candidates need to win are paying attention to what happens in Springpatch? Other than the Thyrl Latting Rodeo what do folks in Cook County have going on that relates? (snark - not for the rodeo - I love it!)

I got the feeling at Governors Day the Dem’s are tired and know a beating is coming their way. Yesterday at Republican Day there was a feeling of optimism. Both were noticeably different from years past.

==It’s not a question of staging. It’s a question of coverage. Rauner’s money has induced favorable media coverage. In the last 20 years, I can’t remember any GOP candidate receiving coverage that cheerleads the candidate like Rauner has received.==

You are on point that the media coverage for GOP Day trumped Governor’s Day. However, it was not only because Rauner has been spending the dough, but that he is kicking butt in the polls and the media is responding to that– he is a “white hot” political commodity now, and the press is responding.

the gop. rauner stepped all over your coverage of governor’s day, and it’s a pretty low bar given the fact that madigan’s party leadership means that democrats are rarely “united” in the truest sense of the word…

The coverage of Governor’s Day from ABC 7 summed it up…Pat Quinn and Lisa Madigan having trouble explaining why the #1 and #2 most powerful Democrats in the state were absent from what is supposed to be a show of party unity.

Yes, I remember reading, “state fair rallies are usually the turning point of elections” in Campaign 101. I believe the text continued, “without a big state fair rally in a small media market that is covered as a homely joke in a major media market, any governor is toast!”

Wasn’t there so really can’t say. From Media Reports, though, my understanding is that the Democrats WANTed a “low-key” Event this year, plus w/consistent Top Vote-Getter/Sec. of State Jesse White there making some noise/decrying Rauner blatantly trying to “buy” votes in the Black Community, and much more feistiness beyond that whack at that candidate wasn’t really called for.

The Fair is supposed to be FUN for the Folks who attend it, first and foremost. The Dems. are united, know it, and didn’t really need to get boisterous at this point w/Pat Quinn’s reputation, in any event, for pulling-off last-minute Comebacks and Major Upsets while gunning down the Polls…saw GOP Day get some Chicago TV coverage so that can’t ever hurt…!